Purpose

The Assistant Director of
Housing authorises an increase to the Ward Housing Hub budget (on a
ward by ward basis) by the value of the ward Housing Hub 2022/23
underspend.

Decision

ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

RECORD OF OFFICER EXECUTIVE DECISION

 

Date of Decision:

30 May 2023
 

Title:

Ward Housing Hub Budget 2023/24
– budget carry forward from 2022/23.
 

Decision Maker:
(Including Job
Title)

James Clark, Assistant Director
of Housing
 

Details of Specific Cabinet
Delegation
or Delegation contained in the
relevant Sub-Scheme of Delegation.
 

Cabinet Report: Area Housing
Panels Review, Cabinet 23rd December 2019.
 
“That the Assistant
Director of Housing be authorised, in consultation with the Head of
Finance (Adults, Public Health and Housing) to increase the Ward
Housing Hub budget (on a ward-by-ward basis) by the value of the
Ward Housing Hub underspend in the preceding year within the 4-year
cycle”
 

Decision:

Approval to increase the Ward Housing Hub budget (on a ward-by-ward
basis) by the value of the Ward Housing Hub underspend in
2022/23, to be added to the Ward Housing Hub budget
for 2023/24.
 

Reasons for the
Decision:

On the
29th of December 2019, Cabinet agreed the implementation
of 25 Ward Housing Hubs with an annual Ward Housing Hub budget
allocation per Ward. The annual budgets commenced from 2020/21
financial year, to be managed within a four-year cycle, with any
uncommitted budget rolling forward to the following financial year,
with all budgets to be spent by the end of 2023/24.
 
Cabinet authorised
that the Assistant Director of Housing in
consultation with the Head of Finance (Adults, Public Health and Housing), to increase the Ward Housing
Hubs budget (on a ward-by-ward basis) by the value of the Ward
Housing Hub underspend in the preceding year within the 4-year
cycle.
 
Having received details of the
value of uncommitted budget, ward by ward, as at the end of
financial year 2022/23, in consultation and agreement with
Corporate Finance, the decision has been made by the Assistant
Director of Housing to increase the Ward Housing Hub budget by this
amount in 2023/24.

Details of alternative
options considered and rejected:

None. The decision has been
made in accordance with the Cabinet authorisation agreed in
December 2019.

Conflicts of interest
declared by any Cabinet Member consulted by the decision maker
which relates to the decision:

None.

Dispensations
Granted:
(If any)

None.

Reports or parts of
reports considered

Anne Marie Lubanski, Strategic
Director of Adult Care, Housing and Public Health
“Area Housing Panels
Review”, Cabinet, 23rd December 2019.
 
James Smith, Tenant Engagement
Manager,
Report: “Ward Housing Hub
Budget 2023/24 - carry forward” May 2023

 
I certify that this is a true
record of the executive decision to approve the increase to the
Ward Housing Hub budget for 2023/24 (on a
ward-by-ward basis) by the value of the Ward Housing Hub underspend
in 2022/23.
 
Signed by the
Decision Maker: James Clark
Dated:                                        
22nd May 2023
 
Name:         
James Clark 
                              
Job
Title:    Assistant Director of
Housing
 
 
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